NCJ Number
146297
Journal
Crime, Law and Social Change Volume: 20 Issue: 3 Dated: (October 1993) Pages: 221-232
Date Published
1993
Length
12 pages
Annotation
While neglect, exploitation, denial of human rights, and abuse of residents can be found in both profit and nonprofit nursing homes in Australia and the United States, substantially higher noncompliance with the law has been observed in for-profit facilities.
Abstract
A significant source of noncompliance involved pressure on senior management from proprietors to reach financial goals that could only be attained by cutting corners on quality of care. This source of noncompliance was stronger among for-profit than nonprofit facilities in a sample of 410 Australian nursing homes. Data on 50 U.S. nursing homes, while inferior to Australian data in terms of reliably measuring compliance, generally supported the conclusion that for-profit facilities have lower compliance and/or lower quality of care than nonprofit facilities. Policy implications of the pressure to produce corporate profits are discussed. 23 notes and references, 2 tables, and 2 figures